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Rare and Other Cancers

Archives for May 2001

Ovarian Metastasis
Brain metastasis is a rare complication of ovarian cancer with only 67 well documented cases in literature. A multi-institutional study of 4027 ovarian cancer patients over 30 years identified only 32 cases while an autopsy study of ovarian cancer reported an incidence of 0.9%. Leptomeningeal metastasis is also a rare…
Mesothelioma
Hi everyone! I suffer pleural mesothelioma arising from past asbestos exposure. Is there anyone out there?
What progress have you seen with treatment?
My mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with mets to the liver. She started a clinical trial of chemotherapy last month. It is really hard on her, I can't begin to imagine what it's like. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer isn't very good in general, and I would love to hear about any progress at all from anyone on…
Father just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
My father was just diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas that has spread to the liver. Looks like they are going to start radiation on the pancreas to shrink the tumor and chemo for the liver. What can he and we expect?

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